Apparently Ecutek dealers will flash it back to stock for free. There's also utility by Malibu Jack for Ecuflash (check on evolutionm.net) that will supposedly allow the Evo guys to read locked Ecus (factory locked and maybe Ecutek), but I don't know of anyone who has tried it on Subarus. I guess it is worth a shot.

Tea cups wrote:Apparently Ecutek dealers will flash it back to stock for free. There's also utility by Malibu Jack for Ecuflash (check on evolutionm.net) that will supposedly allow the Evo guys to read locked Ecus (factory locked and maybe Ecutek), but I don't know of anyone who has tried it on Subarus. I guess it is worth a shot.

No problem
I can read and write anyone reflashed of ecutek ecu on all cars

I don't know if ecutek have provided the ability to have the ecu reverted to stock. It is possible for the ecutek dealer to flash a stock map on but I think the ecu may still be locked the same. If I'd paid 650 then I'd expect the map to be good, or have a refund.

The other option of course is to buy a used ECU, sell the EcuTek ECU, and reflash the used ECU.
I don't really follow how EcuTek does business, but I believe the majority of their "license" fee is one-time right? If so, anyone who actually wants to get tuned with EcuTek would save money by starting with a lame EcuTek tune and having a tuner go from there.

ahains wrote:The other option of course is to buy a used ECU, sell the EcuTek ECU, and reflash the used ECU.I don't really follow how EcuTek does business, but I believe the majority of their "license" fee is one-time right? If so, anyone who actually wants to get tuned with EcuTek would save money by starting with a lame EcuTek tune and having a tuner go from there.

swifty wrote:I don't know if ecutek have provided the ability to have the ecu reverted to stock. It is possible for the ecutek dealer to flash a stock map on but I think the ecu may still be locked the same. If I'd paid 650 then I'd expect the map to be good, or have a refund.

Here's a thread on Nasioc about it:

Ecutek CustomerHi Ben,
I am just joining this thread and wanted to ask you(being a representive for ECUtek), what was done to resolve this issue? I would like to unmarry my liesense and mess around with openecu but would still like the ability to bring my car to my tuner and have him give me my final tune. (This is considering my tuner is over 700 miles away from me and my car is heavly modified) Will this lockout feature you have installed on our ecus be able to be user deactivated? All I need to do is get my car running well enough off the ecu to be driveable, I would still want to use your product for my final tune.

Ben at EcutekHello Nick,

Well, you will still have to send your ECU to your tuner so he can reflash it back to OE configuration, the EcuTeK license will stay in the ECU and will not be erased, unless you reflash oevr it with Open ECU. This would be out of my hands from there. We do not offer the 100% license unmariyng process because of the high risk of ECU failure.